Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-08
GREENBRIAR.

| Wilmer Kerstetter Is making his home
with VIM. Slower this winter.
John Herb spent last Sunday in Clinton
dale with his wife
Miss Ella Neese, after having sojourned
for some time in Nittany Valley with her
sister, has returned home again.
Lettie Growel is home from Bellefonte.
The Bellefonte air don't seem TO agree with
| her.
Things look some better since the filling
up around the walls of the mountain school
house. Let the good work go on. There is
still room for improvements.
Reuben Bracht and his sister Lizzie spent
Saturday and Sunday With friends in Sugar
| Valley.
\ member of the skunk society" was
mean enough 10 throw decayed chicken
in the public well in this place thereby
max ing the water unfit for use.
Stealing in Dngtown still continues.
\ certain individual, not a thousand
miles from. here, who seems to be one of
those chronic grumblers, claims that the
Greenbriar items do the JOURNAL more
harm than good. We fear that is all the
gentleman knows about il. We know that
the JOURNAL is gaining ground around
here and we are assured that il is welcome
learn the person spoken of don't get the
JOURNAL or any other newspaper and that
accounts for a great deal of his talk
Mr.. Aaron Ulrich has improved his home
by placing a new fence arouud it, But the
new fence didn't keep out the bold thief
who entered through the back window of
his shop on Friday evening and helped
himself 10 half the sausages which had been
made that day. Mr.. Ulrich thinks he
knows the thief and advices him 20 return
the stolen sausage.
Mrs John Carey had bad fall last Thurs
day She was unconscious for over two
hours and at this writing is still unable to
walk
The teacher of our mountain school re-
quests parents not TO listen to the malicious
falsehoods being spread about him, but TO
come and see for themselves
Mr.. John Lengle, from near the mountain
church, who lost his life on last Thursday
by bleeding to death from a wound which
he inflicted while cutting down trees, Is a
brother in-law of our townsman Frank Au-
man. He leaves a wife and six children.
Mr. Wesley Jones came home from Belle
fonte to stay.
Miss Chestie Wilson, of Nittany Valley,
is visiting her many friends around here.
The Reiters moved into their new house
which had been building for couple of
years on last Monday.
Mr.. j. c. Slower is again in the poultry
business. He has now on hand and ready
for the eastern market BOO pounds of tur-
keys and about 400 pounds in ducks and
geese.
Two Coburn nimrods were out hunting
last week bnt lost themselves in the woods,
about half a mile south from Greenbriar.
1t looked as if they had been spirited A.
way.
Master Frank Wingard, one of the schol-
ars at Liberty thought he would have some
lUus w ltn u CdItilupc Sncii OIle NlN laSt Week
He loaded It with powder and ball with the
intention of shooting it through a board.
But the thing went off before he was ready
and the result is n blackened and scorched
face 1t might have been worse. Frank |
thinks he will here after be content TO play
with empty cartridges.
Simon Rhoads, with his usual good luck,
killed a big buck while out hunting last
week. Perry Wingard, who has been hunt
ing for the past eight years and never hit
anything, because, as the people say, he
couldn't, get down TO business for once and
shot "a ive-pronged buck weighing 200 |
pounds and doe that dressed 50 lbs. The |
latter he sold for S25. The whole party got |
fvedeer and Perry says killed two of them
and didn't get the buck fever either.
2r> YOUNG HICKORY.